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Monday, 10 April 2017

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THE LAST EIGHT MINUTES: EVERYTHING WE TAKE TO BE A CONSTANT IS CHANGING 

Friends of the Pleistocene [01:21:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (766 visits) info
Eight minutes ago, photons of sunlight that took thousands of years to migrate from the sun’s core left its surface and traveled towards Earth. As a result, everything we see is bathed in eight-minute-old light. The Last Eight Minutes: Everything We Take to be a Constant is Changing, a project by smudge studio, invites visitors to re-establish […]

VIDA DE AUTÓNOMO 

episcophagus [23:18:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (285 visits) info
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Este año, tras un tiempo de incertidumbre, me encuentro con la agenda laboral prácticamente a tope. En estos momentos estoy sacando adelante el trabajo del día a día para las diversas publicaciones de la cabecera Muy y para la Agencia SINC, un encargo de cierta envergadura para SPL , afortunadamente sin fechas estresantes de entrega, y un trabajo particular que está casi terminado, a lo

Magnitude 4,5 earthquake on Reykjanes ridge during the night 

Iceland Volcano and Earthquake blog [21:56:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info
During the night of 10-April-2017 at around 03:39 a magnitude 4,5 earthquake happened and started a earthquake swarm at same location, total number of recorded earthquakes is around 71 but that number is not [...]

From the Archives: The Other California- A Wandering Volcano and a Floral Outburst 

Geotripper [22:24:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
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I don't expect to be able to visit the Southern California "Superbloom", this year, but I have seen it in the past, and thought you might enjoy some geological perspectives on why the poppies do so [...]

Congratulations Garrett and Caytie! 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [17:04:48]  recommend  recommend this post  (179 visits) info
Congratulations to the Watershed Hydrology Lab’s two first year MS students for each achieving two big accomplishments. They have both successfully defended their MS thesis proposals, putting them in a [...]

The fun of sewer work 

Ontario-geofish [21:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (162 visits) info
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For a long time, I was tracking this project.  They hit quicksand, and counted on pumping to clog up the pores.  Six months later, they have finally reached the sewer. Their idea is to open the sewer and [...]

Shepherd Canyon landslides 

Oakland Geology [17:00:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
Last week I went to visit a landslide that had been in the news. As it happened, I saw three. Shepherd Canyon always gets a lot of landslides, like its neighboring canyons in the high hills. The main reason is [...]

We cannot rely on for-profit corporations to build open scholarly infrastructure 

Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [11:28:14]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
Back in 2012, in response to the Cost Of Knowledge declaration, Elsevier made all articles in “primary math journals” free to read, distribute and adapt after a four-year rolling window. Today, as David [...]

Modelling river pothole-formation by calculation 

Earth Learning Idea [10:39:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info
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The new ELI continues our maths in ELIs theme: 'A bucket for a pothole: visualising past processes by calculation; modelling river pothole-formation by calculation – thinking through the assumptions'. [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Atmospheric gravity waves 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [13:36:46]  recommend  recommend this post  (122 visits) info
From the tiny vibrations which travel through air, allowing us to hear music, to the mighty waves which traverse oceans and the powerful oscillations which shake the ground back and forth during an earthquake, [...]

Colin Kelley: Food and Water Vulnerability in a Changing Climate 

State of the Planet [15:00:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (118 visits) info
Colin Kelley, an associate research scientist with the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, studies regional climate in vulnerable areas like the Middle East in order to improve our [...]

Bingham Canyon Mine Landslide - 4-years later 

Arizona Geology [19:29:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (106 visits) info
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On 10 April 2013, Kennecott's Bingham Canyon copper mine situated in the Oquirrh Mountains of Utah,  experienced collapse of one wall of the open pit mine. In EarthSky's EARTH, Deanna Conners provides a short [...]

DEUQUA Exkursion 2017 

Deutsche Quartärvereinigung [15:55:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (206 visits) info
Im direkten Anschluss an das Sitzungsprogramm der diesjährigen GeoBremen startet am Morgen des 28.9. (Donnerstag, 8:30) die Exkursion der DEUQUA am Bahnhof Hamburg. Ende der Exkursion ist [...]

Poas: Erhöhung des Gasausstoßes 

Florian Beckers Vulkan-Blog [17:07:18]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info
Update Ätna: Es fließt ein neuer Lavastrom in Richtung Valle del Bove. Dieser geht vermutlich von der Basis des Südostkraterkegels aus. Auf der LiveCam sieht es allerdings so aus, als könnte sich ein [...]

O marks the spot for magnetic reconnection 

Geospace [20:17:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (170 visits) info
ESA's Cluster mission is challenging the current view of magnetic reconnection – the breaking and immediate rearrangement of magnetic field lines in the collision of two plasma flows. According to a new [...]

Los mundos prehistóricos de John Buscema 

Koprolitos [10:47:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (160 visits) info
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Giovanni Natale Buscema (1927–2002) debutó en 1948 junto a Stan Lee en la futura Marvel. Entre finales de los 50 y 1966 pasó aproximadamente ocho años en el mundo de la ilustración, trabajando como [...]

Someone with brains is slowly putting in accelerometers in Oklahoma and Kansas 

Ontario-geofish [23:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (140 visits) info
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The latest Medford m4.1 had a lot of recordings.  This is the latest one. This reads 3 cm/s PGV with an Intensity of 4.  I was quite impressed with all the instruments surrounding this earthquake.  If [...]

Eindrucksvoller Erdrutsch in den Papamoa Hills, Neuseeland. 

Mente et Malleo [21:37:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info
Ein sehr eindrucksvoller Erdrutsch ereignete sich in den Papamoa Hügeln, Neuseeland. Ausgelöst wurde der Erdrutsch durch die ergiebigen Regenfälle durch die Reste des tropischen Zyklons Debbie. Diese [...]

Eindrucksvoller Erdrutsch in den Papamoa Hills, Neuseeland. 

Mente et Malleo [21:37:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (131 visits) info
Ein sehr eindrucksvoller Erdrutsch ereignete sich in den Papamoa Hügeln, Neuseeland. Ausgelöst wurde der Erdrutsch durch die ergiebigen Regenfälle durch die Reste des tropischen Zyklons Debbie. Diese [...]

HMNS Weekly Happenings 

BEYONDbones [20:00:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (120 visits) info
  It’s the Final Weeks Of Our Blockbuster Special Exhibit: Mummies of the World!         Described as “fascinating, intriguing, and inspiring,” by NBC, “absolutely extraordinary,” by NPR and [...]

Students Travel to Israel to Experience Current Impacts of Climate Change 

State of the Planet [19:09:24]  recommend  recommend this post  (117 visits) info
Current MPA-ESP Student Tiara Cunningham writes about her experience traveling to Israel with SIPA's Israel Environmental

Can State Environmental Agencies Fill in for a Failing EPA? 

State of the Planet [18:46:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (93 visits) info
There are places where EPA will fail the American people. But while state and local governments cannot perform all the functions that a national environmental agency can, visible local environmental and health [...]
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